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OOTP 20 - General Discussions Everything about the newest version of Out of the Park Baseball - officially licensed by MLB.com and the MLBPA. |
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04-12-2019, 02:12 PM | #2 |
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their 'current' ratings aren't mlb-capable are they? no, they don't die. i think some people think that's 'mean' or something, lol. so, they just avoid it.
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04-12-2019, 02:47 PM | #3 |
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I have created an analog process for my primary (fictional) save for just this reason, identifying dates of death and causes of death for former players in my league.
But at this point there is no way that I know of to have this reflected in the game. |
04-12-2019, 02:51 PM | #4 |
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its not a bid deal...just kind of funny that i can look at a guy who is 185 and has ratings still!
side question...how to i make a two way player show up in the pitching AND lineup windows? I have two way players selected in the options but Ohtani isnt showing up on both windows for some reason |
04-12-2019, 03:01 PM | #5 |
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Death is not a possibility in this game. There is not even a field for Death Date in the database. I wonder if they get bored, just hanging out.
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04-12-2019, 03:45 PM | #6 |
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Ballplayers don't die, they just fade away....lol
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04-12-2019, 04:31 PM | #7 |
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I heard they go play in a field in Iowa
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04-12-2019, 04:31 PM | #8 |
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They used to. Many versions ago
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04-12-2019, 05:54 PM | #9 |
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If they move next to C.C. Sabathia they might turn up missing, he loves to eat.
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04-12-2019, 05:56 PM | #10 |
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Owners die, but not players, I find that hilarious.
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04-14-2019, 03:20 PM | #11 |
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04-15-2019, 08:28 PM | #12 |
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this topic has been brought up before and talked about to...wait for it...death. Because of using real mlb players they made a decision not to have a death date.
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04-16-2019, 01:20 PM | #13 |
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04-16-2019, 11:45 PM | #14 |
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My Date with Rip
We sat in the Field Terrace section of Target Field for a game with the Red Sox visiting the Twins. In front of us was the old man who had come into my father, or as I called him, Pops’ care. The old man had been deaf for thirty years, and mostly blind. Long streams of white hair poured out of his ears and nostrils.
“He used to be in the Bigs, you know,” Pops said, pointing at the man slowly raising popcorn to his toothless mouth. I looked at the tiny frame hunched over in the wood wheelchair and chuckled to myself. That a man 132 years old could have ever picked up a glove was beyond me. “How long since he retired, Pops?” “Well, he didn’t, really. More like he got to the Bigs, had a cup of coffee, and then he was done. But, to answer your question, he played 100 years ago.” I stared at the ex-ballplayer. I figured he wouldn’t mind nor notice. I couldn’t imagine how a man barely above three-foot tall could have played ball. “How did little people make it into the Bigs, Pops?” Pops smiled wide. “He wasn’t always that way. Old people shrink, you know, just like ole Rip here. In fact, legend says they keep on shrinking, right up until you can put them in your shirt pocket like a hamster.” Pops went on to tell me all about Rip. He told me how he was an up and coming player out of St. Thomas University. He bounced around in the minors for years before getting a call up with the Boston Braves in 1918. During his time with the Braves, he made 14 total appearances, mostly as a pinch hitter. In 24 official at bats, he only had four hits. He got his one shot but couldn’t make it stick. It was the last time he would smell the Bigs. “Had a perfect record on the basepaths, though,” Pops chuckled. “One try, one steal.” I asked Pops how he knew so much about this Rip Conway, the tiny man from Minnesota. Pops told me that he had become a collector and Rip was on his list. “Baseball players have magic sprinkled on them, son,” Pops said. “They’re born. They play. They live on like magic creatures. Right up until they shrink up into dust, they still live on forever. Like the mahogany on Rip’s chair, like the dinosaur bones dug deep in the earth, baseball players live on. “You play, son, you spend a second in the Bigs, and you get sprinkled with that magic, too.” The big question then. The one I wanted to know most. “So they don’t die?” “They can’t, son. That magic is so powerful, they sit right here beside us, aged gods among us. Their heartbeats keep beating, their breaths keep flowing in rattled clunks reminding us always of that magic, like a perpetual machine. No, son, baseball players don’t die. They can’t. They’re forever etched in our reality, old rivers carving out canyons in ancient volcanoes. They’re magic, son. They’re eternal.”
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